🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Niaux Cave
Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian ~14–13 ka BP · Magdalenian hunter-gatherer
Magdalenian Salon Noir cave with 14 ka charcoal bison and ibex deep in the Ariège Pyrenees.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Timna Valley Copper Mines
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (~4500 BCE – 800 BCE; peak New Kingdom Egyptian 14th–12th century BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom, Midianite/Edomite and early Arabah nomadic
Three-sided sandstone valley north of Eilat where 10,000 shafts and 1.5 million tonnes of slag mark one of the world's earliest industrial landscapes.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Abbey library of Saint Gall
The abbey library of St Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Blood Run Site
Late Prehistoric Oneota (Blood Run phase 1500–1700 CE) · Oneota (ancestors Dakota-Ioway)
Largest Oneota town 1500–1700: 76 mounds and boulder enclosure, 6,000 residents on Big Sioux.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Haua Fteah Cave
Middle Stone Age to Neolithic (200,000–6,000 BP) · Homo sapiens MS A/MSA/LSA; Oranian Dabban Capsian
Haua Fteah is a 50-m-wide by 20-m-high karst cave at foot of Jebel Akhdar escarpment, Cyrenaica's deep 14-m stratified sequence 200,000–10,000 BP, spanning Middle Stone Age Upper Palaeolithic…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Adelsö
Adelsö is an island in the middle of Lake Mälaren in Sweden, near Björkfjärden. The island is part of Ekerö Municipality and Stockholm County.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Mustatils of Northwest Arabia
Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Oakbank Crannog, Loch Tay
Iron Age (~800 BCE – 100 CE; Oakbank 460 BCE – 200 BCE) · Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Caledonian)
One of 18 Iron Age timber islets in Loch Tay, Oakbank comprises a 30-m oak pile ring with horizontal alder floors still preserved 2 m deep in cold waterlogged peat.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thubursicum Bure
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Thubursicum Bure (modern Téboursouk) controls the Khalled–Siliana pass, a Berbero-Roman municipium with Massylian roots.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art
Later Stone Age to Colonial ~8000 BP–19th c. · San ( ancestral Bushman) and Khoe
Kimberley andesite engravings with 1,500 eland-rhino figures and living San custodianship.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Kiln-Anchorage Gateway Archaeological Complex
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Kiln-Anchorage Gateway Archaeological Complex in Ohio, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Hoa Lu Ancient Capital
Early Dai Viet Dinh–Le 968–1009 · Dai Co Viet (Kinh)
First capital of centralized Đại Cồ Việt after independence (968–1010 CE) — fortress between limestone karst towers (Tam Coc–Trang An) and river at Hoa Lu, Dinh (968) and Early Le (980) citadels —…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Archaeological wonder
Los Naranjos, Honduras
Los Naranjos is the name for an archaeological region in western Honduras which belongs to the Lenca culture. It lies on the north border of Lake Yojoa.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Megalith
Zorats Karer (Carahunge)
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (~2000 BCE – 600 BCE; astronomical claims to 5500 BCE disputed) · Kura-Araxes / Trialeti to Urartian (southern Armenian Bronze Age)
221 basalt menhirs 0.5–2.8 m high form a central 45-m ellipse with 32-m straight avenue and northeast arm, plus an outlying circular tomb and dolmen-like cists.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) Rock Art
Pleistocene to Historic ~50 ka–present · Australian Aboriginal (Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Yaburara)
Million-engraving petroglyph province on Pilbara gabbro archipelago, 50 kyr continuous record.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Zawila
Islamic Fezzan (8th–15th c. CE; peak 10th–13th c.) · Garamantian / Islamic (Ibadi-Berber)
Zawila (Zuwayla) in Fezzan is a medieval Garamantian–Islamic oasis city, 8th–15th c. capital after Germa (Garama) decline.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Kalasan
Kalasan (Indonesian: Candi Kalasan, Javanese: ꦕꦟ꧀ꦝꦶꦏꦭꦱꦤ꧀, Candhi Kalasan), also known as Candi Kalibening, is an 8th-century Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Udayagiri and Khandagiri Jain Caves
Kalinga (Maha-Meghavahana) early historic · Jain (Digambara) / Royal Kalinga
Earliest Jain monastic caves in eastern India (2nd c. BCE–2nd c. CE) on twin sandstone hills near Bhubaneswar — 33 caves on Udayagiri and Khandagiri — excavated under Kalinga king Kharavela (c.40…
🇵🇱 Poland · Archaeological wonder
Bolesławiec
Bolesławiec (pronounced [bɔlɛˈswavʲɛt͡s]; German: Bunzlau) is a historic city situated on the Bóbr River in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Edakkal Caves
Neolithic to Iron Age (~6000 BCE – 1000 BCE; inscriptions to 1st century CE) · South Indian Neolithic to Iron Age; Sangam to Tamil-Brahmi
Natural cleft formed by a 4-m boulder bridging a rift in Ambukuthimala hill reveals Old Kannada petroglyphs: over 400 engravings of ibex-like 'Indus-style' jar, stickmen, Sun Plan wheels and a…
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Ingoldisthorpe-Low Archaeological Complex
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Ingoldisthorpe-Low Archaeological Complex in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Umm ar-Rasas (Kastron Mefaa)
Roman to Umayyad (3rd–8th c CE; Byzantine peak 5th–8th c) · Roman / Byzantine / Ghassanid / Umayyad
Desert frontier city on Via Nova Traiana, Umm ar-Rasas contains Roman castrum, five Byzantine churches with superb mosaic floors, and the intact 14×6 m mosaic map in St Stephen's Church (718 CE) –…
🇭🇷 Croatia · Archaeological wonder
Cetina
The Cetina (pronounced [ˈʦětina]) is a river in southern Croatia. It has a length of 101 km (63 mi) and its basin covers an area of 1,463 km2 (565 mi2).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Hawar (Wadi Howar) – Yellow Nile
Early Holocene to Late Antiquity (9500 BCE–500 CE) · Holocene Saharan pastoral / Nubian
1000-km Yellow Nile former tributary with 400 Holocene pastoral scatters 9500–2000 BCE.